WEBVTT - Been There, Dean That: Ciao Bella in Italy 0:00:00.600 --> 0:00:03.560 Hello everybody, and welcome to episode eleven. I've been there, 0:00:03.920 --> 0:00:10.479 Dean that, we've been there. We dean that, we dean 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:11.520 it and we bean it. 0:00:12.280 --> 0:00:13.560 We've been it and yep. 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:15.600 We've deaned it. We've seen it when we dene it, 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:17.840 and we've bean it all. We still have so much 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:20.280 to see and so much to do, so much to bean, 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:24.119 so many beans. But today's episode, we're just gonna go 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:28.560 back and dean what we've already seen. So we're gonna 0:00:28.560 --> 0:00:31.720 do a quick recap of our trip to Italy. 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:32.920 It was glorious. 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:36.120 We just got back last week. But we have also 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:38.360 been to Italy several times before this, and so I 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:41.000 just figured we would include all of our Italy destinations 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:43.040 in one episode, just the Italy episode. 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:45.680 I'm gonna be honest, our previous trip was a lot 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:47.800 better than this trip. Not that this trip was bad, 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:49.440 but that trip was amazing. 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:52.239 Yeah, that's kind of all. I decided to just do 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:55.360 this with all of our our trips because we've been 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:56.600 three times. Do you know that. 0:00:56.840 --> 0:00:59.080 Oh yeah, we went to Venice and Dolomites. 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:03.840 That's right. So back when Caylen and I first started dating, 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:05.920 or in the early days. 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:07.920 In like week two maybe. 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:09.840 Yeah. I remember after I asked her to be my 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:12.120 girlfriend on Bachelor in Paradise, I was like, oh, I 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:16.160 actually want to Spain in Italy for two weeks, like tomorrow, 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:18.200 and we were still in Mexico and one of the 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:21.080 producers was like, okay, obviously like you can't do that, 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:23.600 and I was like, well, no, I'm meeting friends out there. 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:25.400 I have been planning this for months. I have to go. 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:27.680 And he's like, okay, well, then just don't be an 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:29.840 idiot by kaylen and plane ticket to come join you. 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:32.000 Would you have not thought of that if the producer 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:33.240 didn't tell you, I. 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:35.760 Probably wouldn't have. I probably would have just gone and 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:37.080 been like I'll see you when I get back. Don't 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:38.920 don't do anything stupid. 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:42.759 Shout out to Bill. 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:44.600 No, it was Todd, I believe. 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:45.800 Wow. Shocking. 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:48.400 Yeah, So Todd. Todd was like, don't be an idiot. 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:52.120 Just take her to Europe with you. And I was like, oh, fine, 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:53.200 I guess that's probably the best. 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:53.320 No. 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:56.000 I was like, well, I was a guys trip, and 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:59.000 not that it was not that. I just didn't think 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:00.600 of it. And so I was like, like, you know, 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:04.040 in the mindset in mode for a trip with my guys. 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:05.880 We did a couple of things in Spain. 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:08.560 It's not a guys trip because he brought his girlfriend Jason. 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:12.480 Yeah, remember, but he was that car ride. I do 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:15.160 remember that car r but he wasn't like that. I 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:16.640 wasn't going with him. He just happened to be there 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:19.239 at the same time, and so we met up with him. 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:21.520 I was going with like Justice and all his friends. 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:25.640 Remember all those guys from him. Yeah, and then I 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:29.359 was meeting up a chat and Italy later on. 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:30.920 Anyways. 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:33.520 Yeah, so thank you Todd for convincing me to buy 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:36.880 Kilen a plane ticket. It's crazy to buy a girlfriend 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:39.280 you've been dating for two days a nine hundred dollars 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:43.880 plane ticket to Europe. Worth it for you? 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:44.079 You? 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:49.079 For you obviously. So what did we do? We flew 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:53.360 into Venice and we what did you think of Venice? 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:55.160 Let's start there. How did you like Venice? Italy? 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:59.760 I we I haven't traveled as much as Jean, but 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:02.320 the more I traveled, the more I realize, like the 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:06.000 places that are super hyped up, places like Venice and 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:08.560 Paris are never the ones that I'm like, I end 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:10.440 up being the most excited. 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:12.840 About you love Paris though I do not like. 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:16.079 Paris, but like Venice was cool. It's just it's hard 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:18.160 going to a place that is so torsty because it's 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:21.320 exactly that. It is so touristy. You're not getting like 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:25.600 super authentic food. You know, its price overpriced. It's catered 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:29.600 to Americans or tourists in general. So Venice is fine, 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:32.840 it's beautiful, but it's not my favorite city in Italy. 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:35.080 And at the time, though you were in love with 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:40.800 it was I Yeah, you're like wide eyed little girl, 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:41.800 first time overseas. 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:43.840 That was not my first side. 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:46.320 You have this great new boyfriend that's willing to show 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:50.760 you the world. I can show you the world. Yeah, 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:52.400 and you took my hand and jumped on my magic 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:54.360 carpet aka my mustache. 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:57.080 M hm, it's gone then. 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:59.000 And then yeah, the. 0:03:59.000 --> 0:03:59.800 Rest is history. 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:01.320 So what did you think of Nis though, let's fill it. 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:03.120 Let's go through Venice real quick. What was your highlight 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:04.440 of Venis highlight? 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:07.520 It's gorgeous, I think getting to see it and you're 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:09.200 just kind of on the water. It's a little stinky, 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:10.280 but it's beautiful. 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:12.920 It's a little stinky. That water gets a little gross. 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:15.840 Yeah, but it's really cool and I don't know if 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:17.599 that will ever go back. But there are places that 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:21.080 we miss, like really cool restaurants that are just overlooking 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:23.279 the water. Like there's one that's a little key hole 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:28.200 or archway and it's just you and that person like 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:30.839 sitting there on the water. It looks very intimate. 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:31.960 And cue I showed it to you recently, but we 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:32.440 didn't do that. 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:35.120 We didn't, so there's like little parts that maybe we missed. 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:38.839 But also that little boat ride we took into that 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:40.039 other town, I really liked that. 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:42.359 Yeah. I actually was just looking up on all the 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:45.160 places we visited in Italy and I totally forgot about that. 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:47.880 S right. Anyways, Yeah, we took a ferry over to 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:50.680 a small island. I highly recommend. That was a good 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:52.839 day because you get to get out and see. I 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:54.839 believe the island is called Morano. If I'm not mistaken, 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:56.680 I found it. If I'm not mistaken, I believe that's 0:04:56.720 --> 0:05:01.479 what the island is called through my diligent research. But yeah, 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:04.800 all in all, Venice was It's cool to see and 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:06.320 go and say that you've gone. But I don't know 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:07.920 if I would necessarily go back to it. 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:12.600 Here's the thing. We have been so spoiled going north 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:15.880 to south and hitting like the major spots that that 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:18.039 was my first time in Italy and I had a 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:20.480 great time. But then going to other spots, I'm like, oh, 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:23.800 there are like so many cooler cities. But when you 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:29.320 think of Italy, I think the most popular destinations are Venice, Rome, Sicily. 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:34.040 Maybe sure, I don't know, but I love other cities 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:34.600 that will get to. 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:36.960 Yeah, so let's just move on from Venice. If you 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:39.040 have the chances to see Venice, go and spend maybe 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:40.920 two or three days. I would say three days tops. 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:42.839 Two days is probably a good amount of time. Just 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:45.240 walk around and do a gondola ride. 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:47.280 Eat some food, or do a gondola ride. 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:49.880 I don't think that we did. 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:52.520 We did one in Vegas that was nice. 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:55.000 It was kind of like we were in Italy in Venice. 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:58.240 But yeah, two days, three days tops. It's a cool city. 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:00.640 We're not like big museum goers. I think maybe if 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:02.320 we were more museuming we would probably like it a 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:06.159 little bit more. Who knows. But fast forward a couple 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:08.640 of years, maybe two or three years, we then wanted 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:11.279 to do a trip out there for some reason you 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:15.280 got to deal with the Hotel Oriental mand An Oriental 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:16.320 in Lake Como. 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:18.240 I think I was just reaching out to hotels and 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:20.359 they said yes, and so I was like, I've always 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:21.960 wanted to go to like Como. So that's why we 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:22.720 went out there, I think. 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:24.680 Yeah, I can't remember exactly why. I think maybe our 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:26.280 friend invited us, or we just happened to be out 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:26.760 there at the same time. 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:28.880 Yeah, we were just out there and we didn't buy 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:31.600 return flights and so we were just out there and 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:34.960 we didn't have a plan. So we flew into La Como. 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:38.240 Yeah, well we flew into Milan Milan, and then we 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:40.080 rented a car and drove up to Lake Como. In 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:43.920 Lake Como is maybe one of the coolest towns I've 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:45.640 been to in a long time in my entire life. 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:47.800 I do wish we spent more time there because there's 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:50.440 so many, so many spots to see. There was like 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:54.320 one little like beautiful hotel that everyone goes to, and 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:57.400 also they shot Star Wars there, like a bunch of 0:06:57.400 --> 0:06:58.760 spots that we didn't get to go to, So I'd 0:06:58.760 --> 0:06:59.200 love to go back. 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:00.760 I still feel like we saw lot, like we got 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:03.640 that classic Alpha Romeo car and got to drive that 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:07.080 around ran out of gas. Do you remember that? 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:07.320 Oh? 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:08.840 Yeah, that was a fun little car. It was like 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:11.840 a nineteen sixties Coop convertible that was just like fun 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:12.760 to bounce around on. 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:14.680 Yeah, that was really cool. If you have the chance 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:17.520 to rent a classic car, it was. It just felt 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:21.120 like we were in the fifties. Yeah, and Maylen Monroe 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:21.800 and James. 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:25.800 Dean, I don't know, you're asking the wrong guy. What 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:28.520 else did we do? And then we went We took 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:31.040 a speedboat out for like four hours. That was fun. 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:34.160 Yeah, it was. It was really fun because they didn't 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:36.840 have a driver, and they were like, you've driven a 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:39.000 boat before, Dean, right, And Deane's like, yeah, Dean had 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:40.080 never driven a boat before. 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:42.560 I had. I had like taken over the reins from 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:44.280 the driver of a boat, like while we're already out 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:44.600 in the middle. 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:47.080 I never like docked or done you know, all those things. 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:49.880 So it was cool to like a full private experience. 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:53.640 And normally private boat experiences include a driver a boat driver, 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:54.800 but it was fully private. 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:57.320 I'll take free range any day of the week if 0:07:57.360 --> 0:07:58.960 you give me the option of doing it myself or 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:00.800 having someone else do it for I'll do it myself 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:02.560 every single time. Even if I don't know how I 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:04.680 know how to drive a boat in theory, I guess 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:06.800 I've never actually like practiced, so that's why I was 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:08.280 kind of like, yeah, I can totally drive this boat. 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:10.360 But then they're like, okay, cool, here are the keys, 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:13.960 bring it back before five. I was like, oh really, okay, great, 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:17.000 see you. And there weren't really any incidents, thankfully. 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:20.960 Yeah. It's more so just understanding other boats, I guess. 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:22.600 Yeah, which is what I was telling you the whole time. 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:24.520 You're like, so what I learned from you? 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:26.560 You were all so who knows it if it's actually 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:29.320 real or not. You were like freaking out the whole time, 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:31.760 and I was like, just just relaxed. 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:33.400 Sorry, what me? 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:35.560 Just how was I freaking Let me have my moment? 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:37.480 Are you serious? 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:39.200 Yeah? 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:40.320 How was I freaking out? 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:44.720 You're a little scared girl. No, you're going too fast. 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:48.520 You're getting too close to boats, which I wasn't but no, okay, 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:50.920 maybe that's not true. But anyways, it was fun. We 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:53.680 rode the boat over to remember that like little bridge 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:55.920 with the waterfall in the back. Oh yeah, that was gorgeous, 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:56.680 so beautiful. 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:58.640 That's the only time I freaked out was because you 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:00.280 told me to drive the boat and I didn't know 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:01.000 how to drive a boat. 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:02.920 Yeah, I wanted to do a dive off the boat 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:05.000 in front of the waterfall while Kaitlyn took a picture. 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:06.280 But there's only two of us on the boat, so 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:08.480 I had to jump off the boat, make sure that 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:10.840 she knew enough about the boat to not let it 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:14.599 like get away too far right, and then also like 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:17.080 take the picture and run back into the seat. So 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:19.240 it was a lot of work, a lot of coordination involved, 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:21.160 but we got it done. We did it. So we 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:24.160 were gonna look in Lake Como in September twenty twenty 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:28.960 one and the weather I remember the weather being basically perfect. 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:32.440 Yeah it was. It was pretty warm, and it was 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:35.280 shoulder season, which I loved. So that's what I don't like. 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:36.920 I don't like big crowds. I don't like a ton 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:39.880 of tourists around, and shoulder season was great because it 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:40.840 felt pretty empty. 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:45.560 And I do want to mention real quick. We flew 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:47.560 into Milan. I know I already mentioned that, but we 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:50.280 were driving up as like a late flight. We landed 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:52.560 at and then we had like a three hour drive 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:53.360 or something like that. 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:54.720 We're so hungry. 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:57.600 You knew it wasn't gonna talk about. We stopped at 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:00.560 this like truck or stop, and we, you know, our 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:02.920 first time in Italy since the last time we're there, 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:05.080 which is like two or three years before that, and 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:06.800 we just stopped at this trucker stopped just hoping to 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:08.680 get like some chips or something. But they were serving 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:11.240 like food, like real food, like pizza and pasta and stuff. 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:12.640 And we got pizza and pasta and it was some 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:14.319 of the best to this day, some of the best 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:15.680 pizza and pasasta. 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:18.280 Wine, best pizza. It was so good and I was like, wow, 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:19.200 starting off on a high. 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:21.240 Yeah, some random truck stop. We spent couldn't have spent 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:24.800 more than like twelve bucks total for yeah, a couple couple, 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:26.280 couple plates of food. 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:27.120 It was awesome. 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:28.319 And you had some wine. I didn't because I was 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:31.520 driving right right. Yeah, but yeah, Lake Como was awesome. 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:33.840 I definitely highly recommend it if you're thinking about it. 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:37.920 It exceeded expectations. I believe you after going there, you 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:40.760 said you wanted to get married there, and. 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:42.920 I feel like we were really considering it, but then 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:46.360 we had to take into consideration our families and how 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:48.560 expensive it would be to have them out there, like 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:53.679 where they would stay, it's very pricey. I'm happy obviously 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:56.200 with where we ended up, but yeah, I was just 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:57.760 so in love with it. And I was talking to 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:00.760 the Mandarin Oriental and we still at this little like 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:03.120 side house, and they were like, this is usually where 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:05.440 the bride gets ready. You can highly have your whole 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:08.000 family stay here, And I'm like, yeah, if it's free, 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:10.360 but otherwise there's no way we can afford this. It was, 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:11.760 but it was so gorgeous. 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:14.920 Yeah, and like, not only is it expensive there, but 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:18.199 just getting there is expensive. Yeah, So it was probably 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:19.520 for the best that we didn't get married there, although 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:21.280 it would have been amazing and if you have the chance 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:33.120 to check it out. So then from Lake Como we 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:38.040 drove to the Dolomites, which is some of the craziest 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:41.880 mountains I've personally ever seen. It's kind of reminiscent to 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:45.640 me of like the Tetons of Europe. What do you 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:46.120 think about that? 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:50.240 I guess, So are the tea Tons that crazy? 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:53.319 Yeah, well you've seen the Titons, Yeah, but are They 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:56.560 that crazy. The Tee Tons are very crazy, the most, 0:11:56.760 --> 0:11:58.480 in my opinion, the most scenic mountain range I've ever 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:00.920 seen in my entire life. The Dolomites are just maybe 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:03.000 a little bit bigger than the Tetons. 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:06.839 They're so big because it's it's Italy, France and Switzerland. 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:10.959 Yeah, yep, my geography is correct. Yeah, it's close enough. 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:12.360 If it's wrong, I would agree with that. 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:15.520 But it's like it's so big. You've got the Swiss Alps, 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:19.200 You've got the Dolomites. Yeah, the Italian Alps. Why don't 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:20.679 people say the Italian Alps. 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:23.240 They do well? I think helps people are just more 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:24.800 used to hearing the Swiss Alps, and. 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:28.319 It's just it's vast, it's so I I just think 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:30.040 it's so much grander than the Tee towns. I think 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:32.200 the Tee Towns are gorgeous and amazing, but it's hard 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:34.000 to compare because it's so big. 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:36.520 Yeah, okay, let's say this. Then it's like the Tetons. 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:39.559 If the Titans and the Rocky Mountains had a baby, 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:43.280 it would be the Dolomites. Yeah. Do you know what 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:46.360 the Rocky Mountains are in it? Yeah? 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:49.800 Yeah, But like so two small parents make a big parent. 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:56.720 No, the Rockies are bigger than the Dolomites, guaranteed. Yeah, 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:58.559 so the Dolomites. We stayed at Hotel Hubris. Do you 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:01.440 remember that hotel? Very cool? Hotel, very cool, and. 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:03.640 They're always we talked to I think it was the 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:06.200 owner of the hotel and he's like, we're always trying 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:08.599 to create something new, do something new, because they have 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:12.160 this huge, huge, long pool overlooking the Dolomites and it's 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:13.360 absolute gorgeous, like. 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:15.560 Jets out so there's like nothing above it, nothing below it. 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:19.080 Yeah, and you can see the bottom. It's beautiful. And 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:22.440 so then he's like, we're working on a dual sauna 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:25.120 and so it's called like Heaven and Hell. So they 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:26.920 have that. Now I'm excited to see what they do 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:29.480 next because it's a super cool hotel. Yeah, and it's 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:32.600 very uh Swiss and German inspired. 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:36.800 I feel like probably well the food, yeah. I just 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:40.800 remember going to like the because it was fall, early fall, 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:42.800 I guess or late summer. I'm not really sure what 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.080 the seasons are there or not there, but just in general, 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:47.640 like one one ends. And so we went up onto 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:50.040 the ski resort and some of those like the the 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:52.080 chalets were open and so we got I remember just 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:54.760 seating there, but yeah, and that was good. I really 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:56.439 liked that place a lot. He was just great. I've 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:59.760 always since going there in September, I've wanted to return 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:01.160 in the winter and get a ski out there, but 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:03.800 I haven't had a chance to yet. So hopefully one 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:05.240 day I'll have the ability to do that. 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:08.080 That we went to another hotel after In this hotel, 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:10.320 if you ever want to experience what it's like to 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:12.800 be an influencer, check this hotel out. 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:14.560 Wow, why don't you get ahead yourself a little bit more? 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:17.360 Well, this was our next stop at the Dolomites. 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:19.360 I know, but we haven't finished talked about Hotel Hubris. 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:20.040 I thought we did. 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:21.960 Okay, we're done. Now let's move on to the next one. 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:23.000 What's that one called? 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:26.760 Do you remember the name chale l foss Yep. So 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:29.760 we drove from the Dolomites where Hotel Hubris was, to 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:32.880 another place in the Dolomites. I think the town is Vermiglio, 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:36.000 Vermilio something like that, and it's a little closer to 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:41.040 the border. Chale al Fos. Yes, it is influencer Heaven 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:46.240 they set out like these insane like placements of like 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:48.840 the food, and they have every little nook and cranny 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:50.640 is kind of devoted to like getting cool pictures or 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:51.840 like spoiling your partner. 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:53.680 Very very romantic and you don't have to be an 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:56.080 influencer to go obviously. You can set up these little 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:59.360 fun excursions. You can eat breakfast without pacas, and the 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:02.280 outpack has love flower pedals, so they'll just kind of 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:05.600 eat the flower petals off your table. Like you can 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:08.440 do a hot tub at night with a little cute 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:14.400 Chalet cheeseboard, floating Chalet cheeseboard, what else. Like they've got 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:16.960 different cabins and same with them. They're always trying to 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:19.320 do more and as much as they can. 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:20.920 Yeah, our friends just went and did a lot of 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:22.920 the same stuff we did, but also the new stuff 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:25.360 that they've had. Oh yeah, the only gripe I have 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:28.720 with chalet al foss is. It just felt really gluttonous 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:31.560 to me, Like it felt like they like I hate 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:33.520 posting stuff like that because it just kind of makes 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:36.880 me feel like I'm showing off in a way, and 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:38.440 it is very like showy offie. 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:42.080 Yeah, I mean it's hard because a lot of influencers 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:43.960 go so they do every single thing that they have 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:46.840 to offer, Versus I think if someone who's who's not 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:49.840 an influencer goes and they're just doing romantic things for 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:51.080 their partner would be different. 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:53.400 True. And then one day I just want to mention 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:55.320 this real quick. I did a via ferada over there 0:15:55.360 --> 0:16:01.080 at Ponte di Legno Deleno. I just am so bad 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:03.960 at pronouncing these I did a China episode last week. 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:05.160 You know, I was trying to pronounce a lot of 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:08.280 the Chinese names, and I got a couple dms of 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:11.040 like people being like, you are going to confuse so 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:13.160 many people because you're saying the word and it doesn't 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:15.080 sound anything like it's supposed to sound, and so I 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:18.280 feel really bad about that. But Italian is kind of 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:22.480 the same, like Vermiglio, Is it Vermilio Vermiglio? I feel 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:25.360 like it's Vermilio, but it looks like Vermiglio. It's not 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:29.760 phonetic probably, But anyways, Ponte di Legno, pont de Leno, 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:34.480 whatever it is, is this cool via ferrata Kaylin stayed back. 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:40.480 I did a YouTube documentary style version of it. I 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:42.120 was wearing my TI bus and I showed up to 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:43.840 the ticket office because you take like a gondola to 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:46.040 the top or as far up the mountain as you 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:47.720 can and then you start hiking from there. And I 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:49.800 was like, hey, I like one ticket for the gondola. 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:51.680 I want to do the Via Ferrata please, And she 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:53.920 was like, oh, yeah, where's your guide or where's your partner. 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:55.080 I was like, oh, I'm just doing it myself. And 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:56.560 she was like, looked me up and down, saw my 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:59.360 flip flops. She's like, you're doing it in sandals and 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:01.600